TBS fails badly in First National Telecast

I wasn't home until the final 3 innings. I do have tape (I'm still analog) of the game -- but from what I saw -- TBS' coverage was miserable. This is what MLB paid for?

Think about this -- that play at the plate was one of the most important ones of this season, on a 'national' telecast. Yet, we saw 2 -- only 2 replays. Just two angles. One, was the 'cover' shot of the main action, and the other --  a shot looking down the 3B line toward HP, from what -- I assume was an outfield camera. As much as we (myself included) have bashed Fox -- wouldn't we have seen multiple camera angles on a Fox telecast, including a shot from a HP camera? (If one was used in this final sequence, I don't remember, and my tape clicked off about 10 mins before the game ended) Also, with suspending a small camera on a line above third base, Fox uses 'super slo-mo' as a part of its' coverage. That might have helped us tell if Holliday's hand actually touched HP.) From the camera looking down the 3B line, his hand didn't seem to touch the plate. But this replay would have been rejected by an NFL referee --  as 'inconclusive.'

Combined with barely adequate pbp, (I'm sorry, I've forgotten the guy's name, but his work was not memorable) and what appeared to be Joe Simpson sleepwalking through his role as (un)color (ful) analyst -- This might have been the worst national telecast I've ever seen in years.
I can only assume this was done on the cheap. Was TBS not ready for this 'special' telecast? I'd guess they were not.

We've busted Fox's chops for the constant sound effects, "talking baseballs," a barrage of promos during game action -- but you know what? I'm sure that network would have had a more definitive camera shot as that game came to its' conclusion.

And -- In studio, in the aftermath,  Ernie Johnson and Cal Ripkin glossed over the controversy -- a play which is sure to be discussed over, and over and over, on other outlets and in the papers. Was TBS protecting the umpires? Was TBS not wanting to offend MLB in their very first national telecast? Whatever the reason -- this was very uncompelling television, and the non-discussion of the play, obviously -- gives us the answer.

This mess is from the same company which is not afraid to let Charles Barkley say whatever the hell he wants on TNT/NBA coverage? But here, on MLB coverage...it meekly tip-toes away from what looks to be a terrible call? What a pitiful mess.

An "F" to TBS and their first national game.

(Braves baseball doesn't count, since there was still a home bias to those telecasts, as would be found on a Cubs/White Sox telecast on WGN)

TBS better improve -- in a hurry.